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I've created Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator templates for creating comps that work with Olav Bjorkoy's Blueprint CSS Framework. The templates are simply documents with guides based on the 24 units provided by Blueprint. The background image of the grid is also provided with a layer to show unit numbers if you like, and the Illustrator document shows a fake comp to demonstrate positioning on the grid.

You may download the templates here:

• Illustrator Template for Blueprint
• Photoshop Template for Blueprint

I welcome your feedback.

http://urlgreyhot.com/personal/resources/illustrator_template_blueprint_css_comps

So it's about 1 month after I officially launched this site. If you were with me when it first went up, you may have noticed a few minor changes. I started out getting as many things up as I could, and am now evaluating the effectivenes of some decisions and simplifying. Some of the issues around changes have to do with figuring out what works best, others are based on issues having to do with services.

Most notable changes:

• I turned off design submissions temporarily because the screenshot service I was using ceased to function. Am considering now just allowing the submission pool to exist, but there will only be screenshots on hover using the Snap.com service.
• I turned on interface submissions. This requires that you take a screenshot with a tool of your choice (I would recommend Skitch or Jing) and posting it to the pool.

Upcoming changes in March-April timeframe:

• Formatting content to put out complete RSS feeds with images. Requires doing some views work on Drupal with my custom content types.
• Feedburner email newsletter with full content in the feed including a preview of submissions.

That's it for now. I know that posting is slow, but it's regular. I'm trying to emphasize the curative nature of this site rather than going for volume. Everyone else does the volume posting well.

MoFuse is a service that allows site owners to provide a .mobi experience for their existing sites. The service allows you simply plug an RSS feed url into your account settings for a new site, and delivers a mobile formatted version of that feed. They also provide the ability to publish as an iPhone app, using the IUI interface, which you can experience on Google and FaceBook mobile sites. The service also allows you to create static pages, and customize the colors of the UI.

The demo below shows the Konigi feed implemented as a mofuse site. I haven't gotten around to doing feeds that provide screenshots, so you'll see only text for content.

The free service allows publishing under the mofuse .mobi domain, e.g. our Konigi demo is at konigi.mofuse.mobi, and includes analytics tools. You can also monetize your site using AdMob or Google Adsense—you'll do a 50% revenue share with MoFuse. For $6 USD, you can upgrade your account to use your own domain, provide a header logo, and get 100% of your ad revenue.

The functionality you provide is fairly limited, but this can be a nice simple implementation of the IUI experience for sites that don't want to invest the time in creating a mobile format for their sites.

http://www.mofuse.com/